May 8-Making Nature Sacred 3-Adrienne Jones

In “Making Nature Sacred,” Gatta speaks about Wendell Berry, a highly asteemed author. Berry grew up in the Baptist church and practiced many of its structured, religious studies. Soon, Berry decided to move to Kentucky and start a life of his own, not to completely divide from the Christian faith, but to submerge himself with nature so he could better understand the magnificence of God. One point he made that was very significant to me was his ideal of heaven. In the Christian church, Heaven is seen as a reward for those who have done everything they needed to do while they were on Earth and deserved a paradise when they die. Berry slightly disagrees with this. Instead of saying that Heaven is a just reward to man, he sees it as a “divine gift to a fallen people,” meaning that it is because of God’s grace that we will live in paradise when we die.